[mythtv-users] Only 1348 pixels out of 1360 with Intel X driver (and mythstream is weird)

C.T. Paterson i.adore.my.64 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 22:41:06 UTC 2008


2008/7/30 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> On 07/30/2008 05:50 PM, C.T. Paterson wrote:
>> 2008/7/30 C.T. Paterson
>>
>>> 2008/7/30 Nick Rout
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:25 AM, C.T. Paterson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Now, with my nvidia card, the modeline worked fine, and I got full use
>>>>> of the screen on my TV.  Using my o/b intel, the screen content looks
>>>>> fine, but I'm missing 12 vertical pixels and one horizontal pixel.
>>>>> I've shifted the image around through my TV, such that I've got 6
>>>>> black pixels on each side.
> ...
>>>>> One other interesting, and perhaps relevant fact -- since I've switch
>>>>> the cards, I can no longer switch a mythstream feed to full screen
>>>>> while watching it.
> ...
>>>> Have you played with the TV's controls? I found that there were
>>>> controls on my panasonic lcd to move the image around (like you have
>>>> on a monitor). Made me feel silly about playing with X for days to
>>>> unsuccessfully try to get it right.
>>>>
>>> Yes, I have - and probably will do so again out of sheer insistence
>>> that this problem is just too nutty to have happened legitimately.
>> There was some manner of reset setting in the TV - I used that - and
>> the image now fills the screen.  I'm still a little flummoxed as to
>> what happened and how it was that that was the solution - but it seems
>> all is well again.
>>
>
> Yep.  Most TV's scale images--especially those received from "computer"
> inputs--so that they work like a normal monitor.
>
>> My mythstream is still goofed.  Anyone know what's happening there, or
>> is there anything I can supply that will help diagnose?
>>
>
> Probably the video driver (and lack of support for what you're trying to
> do).
>

Just curious - what is it about what I'm trying to do that is
unsupported?  Certainly this is turning out to be more of a pain than
I expected (a couple of other minor irritants that I have not
mentioned), and am considering putting the card back in.

Cheers.

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